Gathering Hope
Next intake opening in 2022 - join the waitlist now
‘Gathering Hope’ is the sanctuary I wish existed when I first began to navigate my grief. I was processing and exploring my grief ‘the old way’ - you know, repressing, denying, pretending, numbing and stuffing down every feeling and emotion that arose. I created pain on top of pain until one day, through exhaustion and a river of tears, I finally decided that there had to be another way to not only experience grief but to live with it.
I began searching for a different way of being with my grief, a different way to witnessing who I was when I was in my grief and a different way to honour that grief, rather than punishing it.
After gifting myself permission to grieve, healing finally began. And I discovered that grief isn’t the enemy, but one of the greatest teachers I’ve sat with. I now have a relationship with loss and grief that is built with deep respect, love and compassion.
And that is what I want to offer you.
I see you struggling. I see you denying the full expression of your grief. I see you feeling numb. I see the pain in your expression. I know the avoidance comes from a place of deep pain. I see you fatigued with merely trying to exist in a world that no longer feels alive.
“Gathering Hope” is the sanctuary for you to land in to rest your weary soul.
What People Are Saying
“Juanita was the lighthouse I needed to see when I was drowning in my grief.”
— Jacquelyn, Melbourne
“I didn’t think I really needed support with my grief, but a friend recommended Juanita and I honestly wish I had of connected with her sooner, she is one of the most nurturing, kind and gentle souls. I was so numb when I started working with her but working with her has allowed me to feel and participate in my life again.”
— Hettie, Barossa Valley
“The thing I loved most about working with Juanita is that I could drop the act - I could just be me, a grieving daughter. And with time, she empowered me to be ‘me’ all the time, with no apology.”
— Anna, Ballarat
“'Thank you’ will never be enough for the gift of feeling my life again. I’m so grateful to you and your wise, caring heart.”
— Ange, Newtown
It’s time to remember with more love than pain.
Gathering Hope is a 3 month sanctuary for 8 people to nurture, express and honour their grief.
Those that courageously say ‘yes’ know that they want to stop fearing their grief, or what life looks and feels like after loss.
They want to build a relationship with their grief that allows their heart to exhale, their grip that has been white-knuckling life to ease, the lump in their throat that has silenced their expression to dissolve.
They’re looking for a deep immersion into how to sit with and build a relationship with their grief - they know and trust there has to be another way to avoiding or drowning in it.
They’re ready to know what life feels like again - not the numb, emotionless void it’s felt like for too long. They no longer want to wish away or miss another day, week, month, year. They know first hand that tomorrow isn’t promised.
